Ethan Hernandez Maldonado, 3, died on Sunday.(Photo: Screenshot)
A Texas funeral director posted a heart-wrenching open letter on Facebook<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to the person who fatally injured a three-year-old boy in a hit-and-run accident in Austin on Sunday afternoon.
Robert Falcon said he posted several photos of the child on Wednesday, including one of the boy<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in a small white casket,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to encourage the hit-and-run driver<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to step forward and claim responsibility for taking the child's life.
"I want you to see these pictures and I want you to know how much it pains me to know that you would run over a child and not stop to render aid," Falcon wrote.<span style="color: Red;">*</span><span style="color: Red;">*</span>"I had to listen to a mother and father cry and bargain with God today because you took their son from them."
The Travis County Medical Examiner identified the victim as three-year-old<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Ethan Hernandez Maldonado on<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Monday,
KVUE-TV reported.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Following the accident, Ethan was taken to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Dell Children's Medical Center, were he was pronounced dead.
Falcon, who is the founder of Affordable Burial & Cremation Service,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>wrote that he cared for Ethan's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>body from the time he picked him up from the Medical Examiner's office, to the moment<span style="color: Red;">*</span>when he closed the casket and took Ethan to his final resting place.
"I was there when his mom and dad saw him for the first time yesterday, and wept with them," Falcon wrote.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"I was the last to see his body."
Falcon said it was one of the hardest experiences of his life.
"I did this because of you," Falcon said. "You know who you are. I have done my duty, now do YOURS and turn yourself in."
According to police,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the suspect was driving<span style="color: Red;">*</span>an older model white and tan Chevy with a ladder on the back.
Contributing: Jason, Puckett,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>KVUE-TV, Austin<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
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